Hat-wire



(No Model.)

H. H. KELLNER.

HAT WIRE. No. 365,185. PatentedJune 21, 1887.

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UNITED STATES HERHAN H. KELLNER, OF DANBURY, CONNECTICUT.

HAT-WI RE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 365,185, dated June 21, 1887.

Application filed April 22, 1987.

To aZJ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IIERMAN H. KELLNER, ofDanbury, in the county ofFairtield and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in 1Iat\Vires, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention consists in a hat-wire or wire frame for hat-brims, of a peculiar triangular shape in its transverse section, substantially as hereinafter described, whereby many advantages are obtained in the application of the wire to the brim of a hat, as herein set forth.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a view in perspective of a hat with portions of the brim broken away for the purpose of showing the arrangement of the pcculiarly-shaped wire in the brim. Fig. 2 is a plan view of a frame as made from the wire; and Fig. 3 is a transverse section, upon an enlarged scale, of my improved hatwire.

A indicates the wire of which the frame of the brim of the hat is composed. This wire in transverse section presents a triangular figure, which is bounded by two straight diverging lines, I) 1), meeting at the point from which they diverge, and by a convex line, a, uniting the lines b b at the points of their greatest divergence, the whole substantially resembling the figure of a quadrant, although not neces sarily taking in the quarter of a circle, nor the curved shape of its one outline necessarily bein g struck from the center of the circle of which the two straighter diverginglines form radii. Said wire A, which is made of steel with a spring temper, may be bent or formed into frame shape and be united at its ends in any suitable manner, care, however, being taken to applyit to the brim of the hat, with its several sides and angles arranged as will now be described.

In the front and rear portions of the brim of the hat the angular portion (Z of the wire, formed by thejunction of its sides I) I), will be in front. This will enable the wire to fit close under the curl of the brim, so that the portion (7, will fit the brim free from any raising of the Serial No. 233.T'",. (No model.)

curl in the brim at its front and rear. The one flat side, I), of the wire will set under the curl of the brim, as shown in Fi 1, the other flat side, I), being the under side of the wire. This will enable the workman to get close under the edge of the curl to stitch on the usual binding, and there will be no difficulty, such as is now commonly experienced, in stitching on the binding. The rounded or convex side 0 will be on what is termed the outside facing, the same presenting a thickened or rounded configuration on the inner portion of the side curl of the hat-brim, which is about equally as desirable as the thin or angular portion d of the wire arranged in front of the front and rear portions of the brim is.

A hat-frame constructed of the peculiarshaped wire A, as described, will have an increased spring, and, with its portion (2 arranged to have an outside projection, it will possess considerable strength in its application to the hat, and when put in the hat there will be no tendency of it to jump out of place. It will give a finer finish, too, to the front and rear of the curl, as the portion of it from which it commences to diverge will lie straight in the part of the brim that has been turned over.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. As an improved article of manufacture, a hat-wire consisting of an endless-wire frame of triangular shape in crosssection, with two straight or flat diverging sides and one convex side uniting the straight sides at the points of their greatest divergeney, as set forth.

2. The combination, with a hat, of a frame applied to the brim thereof, composed of a wire of triangular shape in cross-section having two flat diverging sides and one convex side uniting the diverging sides and arranged so that the wire at the junction of its diverging sides has an outside projection in both the front and rear portions of the brim, substain tially as herein set forth.

HERMAN It. KELLNEP.

Witnesses:

F. I. SIGNOR, DAVID B. Room. 

